Chapter 157: IP? I'll fry it too

Li Hong can't set up more departments, after all, the current sweet potatoes, even these departments are difficult to fill.

The Ministry of Personnel and other departments, Li Hong directly replaced it with a Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is a stopgap measure, after all, you can't set up a vacant department, right?

Basically, the restructuring of sweet potatoes is all about this. The general direction has been given to Li Hong, and the rest is to see Charlie and others to improve it.

After talking about the restructuring of sweet potatoes, the rest are just some inconsequential trivialities.

After Charlie wrote down Li Hong's opinion, he frowned and asked, "Boss, I don't have any opinion on the sweet potato reform, after all, this is also a good thing." But should you give your opinion on what we want to focus on next? ”

"Uh......"

Li Hong was taken aback instantly, he really forgot about this. After the sweet potato restructuring is completed, a corporate plan must be formulated.

Otherwise, no matter how good the system is, it will only be a castle in the air.

"What do you think you're going to do next?" Li Hong, who couldn't make up his mind, asked a few people.

He knows almost nine out of ten about the operation of film and television companies, and he doesn't know anything about it. After all, Li Hong was just a street writer before, and the film and television company really didn't know much about it.

"I think our investment is too monotonous, and we always count on the work of director Lu Mao, which will waste a lot of gaps. We should launch more works as soon as possible to fill these gaps. Charlie hit the nail on the head and pointed out the biggest problem with sweet potato film and television.

Li Hong nodded, this problem has always existed. Before, it was because of a lack of funds, so I could only come one by one. Now that there is a blood supplement on the fist side, there is basically no shortage of funds, so you can launch more projects.

"But we don't have so many screenwriting resources, we don't have a book, what are we filming? Will it lose money? I think it's better to think about these more! Lu Mao said cautiously.

As a director, he naturally hopes that more films will be filmed under him. But if the boss is filming a bad movie for the sake of impulse, it is not what he wants to see.

Charlie nodded and said seriously: "This problem is indeed quite serious, not to mention how long it takes to form a screenwriter team, we don't have that need at all." I think it's better to shoot those ready-made IPs. ”

“IP?”

As a street writer, Li Hong can be said to be very familiar with this word. After all, in the contracted writer group, there is news from time to time that a certain bigwig's work has been filmed.

IP is indeed a new way out for film and television companies, which is also closely related to Li Hong's industry. In this regard, he can be regarded as able to say two sentences.

So, Li Hong asked curiously: "What IP is it?" What about the network? ”

"Network?"

Charlie quickly thought of his boss's side hustle, and said after a long time: "Boss, the Internet is indeed a good entry point. But now the online shooting is very stressful for us. Those fantasy immortals, if they don't get it right, it's just a bunch of bubbles. Not only do we have to spend a lot of money to buy film and television rights, but we also have to invest a lot of money to shoot. If you don't do any of this well, you will offend thousands of fans of the original book. IMHO, this is a completely thankless task for sweet potatoes. ”

Li Hong nodded, he also understood that this was all wishful thinking. As Charlie said, the adaptation of this network, the millions of copyright fees, coupled with a lot of investment, can be said to be not a good idea for sweet potatoes.

However, this is just the fantasy fairy tale that Charlie said. When Li Hong thought of adapting the Internet, he thought of a classification that was extremely easy to ignore.

Metropolis!

The city has always been an evergreen tree in the online world, and readers and fan groups are not under the fans of fantasy Xianxia. This is also a category worth exploring, and perhaps the only difficulty is that most urban adaptations involve illegal issues of one kind or another.

Either pornography, gambling and drugs are suspected of infringement, which will be a big challenge for them.

After all, if the city is easy to adapt, it will not be their turn to sweet potato film and television.

After saying his thoughts, Li Hong quietly waited for the suggestions of several people.

"Boss, the city is indeed worth exploring, but how can we avoid those lightning spots?" After Soul Light came to Lanxing, he became a senior Internet enthusiast, and naturally he was very clear about these doorways.

Li Hong explained with a smile: "In this regard, we can only say that we will do our best to eliminate it, and if it can be deleted, it will be deleted, and if it cannot be deleted, then it will be changed and then released." ”

The corners of Charlie's mouth twitched, and he asked curiously: "Then the fans of the original book will make a fuss!" If we make such a blind change, we will offend a large part of the fans of the original work. ”

"Of course I know, the problem is that these fans of the original book don't necessarily come to see our work. Besides, if you don't change it like this, how can you pass the audit? ”

"That's right, those guys are making a lot of noise, and they don't necessarily see much." Lu Mao nodded and said.

To adapt a mature IP work, there is one issue that has to be mentioned, that is, the feelings of fans of the original work.

But in fact, there are really not many fans of the original book who really watch the adaptation. The reason why investors invest in this IP is that they value the mature potential of this work. After all, it has proven that this is a work that can absorb fans, so it is not a matter to absorb fans of TV series.

Therefore, most of the film and television works adapted from IP are hoping to replicate the success of literature in the field of film and television. Instead of expecting to transform those original fans into film and television fans.

The role of those original fans is probably to stir up the popularity of film and television works for investors. First use these original fans to hype up the works that have not yet been released on major platforms to attract the attention of more non-original fans.

When it was released, fans of the original book were disappointed. And the vast majority of passers-by who have not read the original work are the real target.

Don't say how many fans of such and such a work are, once it is released, how many people will watch it. The film and television companies that invest in them don't care about these things, they only care about profits.

Before you see the benefits, how many fans are a joke. They will only adapt this mature IP according to their own wishes.

Therefore, many popular IP works are mostly disappointing to fans of the original work. And the IP works that really make fans happy with the original work have little income, and even lose to grandma's house.

"Then change it, I don't believe it, what others can do well, we won't be able to do well!" Li Hong said fiercely.

"Charlie, you will go to the headquarters of the Demon Capital Yuewen tomorrow and make a deal with them. Let's be sure to launch ten IP-oriented works this month. ”